First-time feature filmmaker Mark Levin (producer/writer of TV's
The Wonder Years) and his screenwriter wife, Jennifer Flackett, joined forces for this sweetly sentimental story of young love. Extensively narrated by young star Josh Hutcherson, it's geared to adult sensibilities but entirely suitable for children as young as the actors. Who doesn't remember their first crush, first kiss or, more painfully, that first devastating heartbreak? Manhattan fifth-grader Gabe (Hutcherson) is still at the "girls have cooties" stage of preadolescence when he's paired with classmate Rosemary Telesco (Charlie Ray), whom he's known since kindergarten, in an afterschool mar...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG
Length:
84 mins